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• The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Travel, Humor

  The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 27

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• Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

  Agatha Christie

  Truth, Woven, Bitter

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• The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

  John Hench

  Business, Perception, Problem

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• We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Way Forward, Needs

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• We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Self Confidence, Complacency, Comfort Zone

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• Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Dance, Vocabulary, Color

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.

  Herbert Muschamp

  Memories, Cities, History

  "The Secret History of 2 Columbus Circle" by Herbert Muschamp, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2006.

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• Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Change, Learning, Mean

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• The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Opposites, Play, Working It

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• You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being is created to enjoy your spiritual life and not the material life. This is the basic thing human beings don't understand and that's why, if they knew this fundamental thing, they would seek their spirit first and they would not seek other things.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  Quintilian

  Art, Perfection, Concealment

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• As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.

  Raymond Loewy

  Fun, Airplane, Science

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• Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

  Tim Blixseth

  Motivational, Greatness, Ideas

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• Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stupidity, Religion, Trends

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammarabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.

  Michael Shermer

  Native American, School, Science

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• Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

  George Wald

  Science, Editing, Choices

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• Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to accomplish the most complicated and delicate of tasks. Many organic chemists viewing crystal structures of enzyme systems or nucleic acids and knowing the marvels of specificity of the immune systems must dream of designing and synthesizing simpler organic compounds that imitate working features of these naturally occurring compounds.

  Donald Cram

  Dream, Science, Knowing

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• Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

  Oliver Sacks

  Nature, Science, Errors

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• Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different from the creationists or intelligent design proponents is that I find knowledge a compelling reason to believe in God. They find ignorance a compelling reason to believe in God.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

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• I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fashion, Degrees, Pieces

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• Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

  Steven Brust

  Writing, Use

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• Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Humility, Self, Opposites

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1806). “The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion”, p.14

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• Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

  Francois Truffaut

  Humility, Men, Luck

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• Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of design and planning.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Views, Religion

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Origin Of Life, Religion

  Wernher Von Braun (2007). “The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology”, Collectors Guide Pub

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